I’ve been keeping my head down working on various projects and apparently Microsoft has been busy making some big changes and it’s confusing the hell out of me. ASP.NET Core first came onto my radar when I installed Visual Studio 2017 last year and went to create a new project and suddenly had choices of .NET Framework, .NET Standard, and .NET Core. So I looked into them a little and saw that the latter two are, in some way, abbreviated versions of the full framework. I read this post by Scott Hanselman ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0 I also found this, which steered me away from ASP.NET Core: Choose between ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core. My takeaway was “Core is new, you’re fine to keep using the full framework.” So I created a new ASP.NET MVC site using .NET Framework 4.6.2 and Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 5.2.3.